The Competition and Markets Authority is looking at the practice as used on the Nintendo Switch, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox….
European Commission welcomes European Parliament’s vote on new rules for sharing public sector data
The European Parliament has approved the Open Data and Public Sector Information Directive, which has been welcomed by the European Commission….
Techsplainer: The Code behind Cryptocurrency
In the first of a regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, looks at asymmetric keypairs and hashing and how they underpin cryptocurrencies….
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Space 2.0: regulating growth in the space industry
Christian Fahey looks to the stars and introduces the concept of Space 2.0, looking at the technological and regulatory changes the satellite communications industry is undergoing and how those changes could support and foster new technologies to underpin the UK’s role in that revolution….
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Jurisdiction in online trade mark infringement cases: the AG’s Opinion in Case C-172/18 AMS Neve v Heritage Audio
The Advocate General has issued an opinion in Case C-172/18 AMS Neve Ltd and others v Heritage Audio SL and another….
In Code we trust? Trustlessness and smart contracts
Mimi Zou, Grace Cheng and Marta Soria Heredia look at ‘trustlessness’ which they argue has given rise to a common misperception of smart contracts reducing or even eliminating the need for trust….
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Legal Design Explained: Part 1 – What is Legal Design?
Legal Design Engineer, Charlotte Baker, explains what we mean by the increasingly popular term ‘legal design’, the principles and tools involved, and explores various real-life examples of legal design in practice. In this first part of a four-part series of short articles, she defines what this new term means….
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Network and Information Systems (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Regulations revoke several aspects of the NIS Regulations such as the obligation to communicate network security policy to the European Commission….
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This week’s techlaw news snippets
A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site (w/b 29/04/2019)…
Controversial Copyright Directive agreed by European Parliament
The European Parliament has agreed the draft Copyright Directive in plenary session….
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